University honors

Friday, Nov. 6, 2009

Horn earns master's

Jessica Ann Horn, daughter of Harry and Laurita Horn, has earned a master's degree in athletic training from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va. She has also received her board of certification as an accredited athletic trainer and is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association.

Horn's internships included Millbrook High School, Shenandoah University and the U.S. Naval Academy. She has been honored for the highest GPA in the 2009 Athletic Training Graduate Program of Health Professions and received the Shenandoah University Distinguished Alumni Award for her outstanding academic achievements, leadership and expertise in her field.

She previously received a bachelor of science degree in physiology and neurobiology from the University of Maryland in College Park, while serving as a student athletic trainer for the University of Maryland football team.

She is a 2002 graduate of St. Mary's Ryken High School.

She is employed as an athletic trainer for SportsMed Orthopaedic Surgery and Spine Center, a sports medicine consultant and practitioner for the University of Alabama in Huntsville and many high school and middle school athletic programs.

White selected as RA

Rob White of Mechanicsville was selected as a Resident Assistant for the 2009-2010 academic year at Catawba College.

White is one of 27 students serving as RAs in Catawba's 14 residence halls this year.

York honors Boekel

Melanie Boekel of Lexington Park earned a salutatorian scholarship from York College in Pennsylvania. Boekel is a first-year accounting major and a graduate of Great Mills High School.

The salutatorian scholarship is a one-half tuition scholarship per year for entering first-time, full-time freshmen who were salutatorians of their high schools and have a combined SAT score of 1150 or higher.

Excelsior College announces graduates

The following local students have graduated from Excelsior College in Albany, N.Y. Both Virginia S. Gill of Lexington Park and Angela M. Wiendahl of California earned bachelor of science degrees.

York announces academic scholarships

The following local students earned a dean's academic scholarship at York College in Pennsylvania. The dean's academic scholarship is a scholarship of one-third tuition per year for entering first-time, full-time freshmen accepted by Feb. 1, who have graduated in the upper two-fifths of their high school class and have a combined SAT score of 1150 or higher.

Local honorees include Daniel Schuck of Leonardtown, a first-year computer information systems major and St. Mary's Ryken High School graduate; and David Booz of Callaway, a first-year chemistry major and St. Mary's Ryken High School graduate.

Located in south central Pennsylvania, York College offers more than 50 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences and humanities to its 4,600 undergraduate students.

The college also offers master's programs in business, education and nursing.